Railroad-tie



(No Model.)

E. DIETRICH. l RAILROAD TIB.

No. 450,145. PatentedApr. 14,1891.

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ELIAS DIETRICH, OF ROCHESTER, NEV YORK.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 450,145, dated April14, 1891,

Application filed October 28, 1890. Serial No. 369,588. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELIAS DIETRICH, a citizen of the United States,residing at Rochester, in the county of Monroe and State of New York,have invented a new and useful Railroad-Tie, of which the following is aspeciication.

The invention relates to improvements in metallic railway-ties.

The object ot' the present invention is to provide a simple and durabletie in which the portions subject to wear and to which the rails areattached may be readily renewed when worn.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination andarrangement ot parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated 1n theaccompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claims hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of a railway-tieembodying the invention. Fig-2 is a reverse plan view. Fig. 3 is alongitudinal sectional view. Fig. 4E is a transverse sectional view.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, 1 designates a railway tieconstructed of metal and consisting of rectangular plates 2, provided ateach end with vertically-extending side flanges 3, which form, withremovable'end plate 4, boxes 5, adapted for the reception of woodenblocks 6, to which the rails of a track are secured by spikes in amanner similar to securing rails for ordinary wooden ties, and the saidblocks when worn may bc readily removed and replaced by new ones at alsmall amount of labor and cost, and an ordinary wooden tie will readilymake four such blocks. The ends of the ties are bent upon themselves loform transverse grooves 7, in which the lower ends S of the outer plates4 engage, and the said ends are slightly bent to facilita-te engagementwith the grooves. The side flanges 4 of the plates are bolted to thevertical flanges 3, and when a block is to be removed the end plate isfirst taken oit. The lower ends 9 of the inner plates are bolted andsaid plates are not necessarily removed when blocks4 are to be inserted.The boxes 5, which are arranged at the ends of the ties, form betweenthem an openspace,whichisaconvenientreceptaclefor a water-trough, whendesired. The lower face of the rectangular metal plate 2 is providedwith a longitudinal flange or web 10, which web l0 extends nearly theentire length of the tie, and the transverse flange ll is arranged aboutmidway the length of the same. The sleeper-blocks, which are secured inthe casing or boxes, and which may be either ot' ordinary or vulcanizedwood, render the metallic tie fully as elastic as the ordinary tie, andone ordinary wooden tie will readily supply four blocks, thereby greatlylessening the cost of ties and at the same time securing all theadvantages of wooden ones.

lVhen ordinary wooden ties are employed they are coated with gas-tar ora similar preservative, together with its joints of the boxes.

It will be seen that the metal tie is simple and inexpensive inconstruction, and the blocks can be readily removed and new onesinsert-ed when the parts become worn.

From the foregoing description and the accompanying drawings, theconstruction, operation, and advantages of the invention will readily beunderstood.

IVhat I claim isl. In a metallic tie, the combination of the rectangularplate 2, provided at its end with transverse grooves 7 and having at itssides the integral vertical flanges 3, the inner end plates secured tothe tie, the outer end plates lsecured to the tie and having their lowerends engaging the said transverse grooves and the blocks, substantiallyas described.

2. In a metallic tie, the combination of the rectangular plate 2, havingits ends bent upon themselves to form grooves and provided with verticalflanges 3, the depending longitudinal and transverse flanges formedintegral with the plate, the inner end plates secured to the plate 2 andprovided at their sides with flanges lapping the vertical iianges, andthe outer end plates engaging the grooves and provided with the sideflanges, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

ELIAS DIETRICH.

lVitnesses:

J. O. KELLY, JOHN C. MONATS.

